ROSA
Rosa
WHAT? She is a grown woman and i support her choices.
Holly
I also support her choices.
Max
As stated above, I can support choices without needing updates about anyone’s choices. Or visuals.
Rosa
Coward,part two.
I press the heel of my hand to my forehead. There is not enough coffee in the world for this.
I am going to work now, where allegedly i am paid to do things other than fend off verbal assaults
Rosa
Did you though
Goodbye forever
I mute the chat. Then immediately unmute it because I’m weak and nosy. Then re-mute it because I have some self-respect.
My phone buzzes again.
Miller
I’m leaving for work
You want a ride?
My heart does that stupid, eager thing again.
I stare at the message for a long second. Because the answer is yes. Obviously yes. I want rides and coffee and all kinds of things that are suddenly beginning to feel dangerously domestic.
I pause my train of thought.
No. Notdangerouslydomestic.
Dangerously domesticimplies I have doubts,either about my feelings or about his. And I don’t. Not after yesterday.
So, no. It doesn’t feel dangerously domestic at all. It feels deliciously domestic.
However, I am not entirely sure what the rules are now. What we do at work. How public this is. Whether getting into his SUV on a Monday morning will make me spontaneously combust.
But then I remember his voice in the afternoon light, low and certain.
We don’t go backwards. Forward only.
And underneath that one word I’ve been turning over since yesterday.
Someday.
